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privation
Meaning: severe lack of basic needs or comforts
privation in a sentence
How privation is used in real sentences:
Years of wartime privation left many families without adequate food or heat.
Despite months of privation, the explorers continued across the frozen plateau.
“Mara rented a squalid workshop beside the rail yard, where rain stained the walls and a broken heater turned winter mornings into genuine privation.”
— from the passage Against the Metal
Synonyms for privation
Other words for privation — deprivation, hardship and want — carry the same meaning.
- deprivation
- hardship
- want
Antonyms of privation
Words that mean the opposite of privation:
- abundance
- comfort
- plenty
Where it comes from
From Latin privare, meaning 'to deprive.'
Memory hook
PRIVATION contains PRIVE, like deprived: privation means being deprived of necessities.